New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from ...

The platypus and echidna, often regarded as some of the most peculiar animals on Earth, may be hiding a far more complex ...

Australia's burrowing echidna evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an "extremely rare" event, scientists said in a new ...

TasWater has launched its Water Guardians program through a dedicated website offering free curriculum-aligned resources ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.